You can Bug report this.
(And on my side i let people going full retard flying straight to ennemy and entering missile spam,… i prefer to side alone for a bit, and be able to pick up my ennemies → works pretty good tbh)
[To do what i do, you need a brain and some navigationnal skills, that most don’t have → welcome to Air REALISTIC Battles]
I don’t know if it’s a bug or not, half the time things I think are a bug are just intended features somehow.
bug reporting it, would help to define those, since the Bug-report team would look around it.
I observe this when I crash, not when I get killed. Perhaps crash means full repair?
True, but a 10G missile is far easier to dodge than a 20-30G one, this is what I’m talking about.
As for the video, I’m not an expert in ARB by any means so don’t quote me on this, but it looks like you played it perfectly in his favor.
I think his radar would’ve a much harder time to lock you if you were below him, so going down instead of up might’ve been better. Also, you’re at a crazy high altitude considering you have no radar missiles of your own.
Question, have you ever tried locking his missile with your IR one, I think they would proxy each other out and that might catch someone off guard.
I mean I’m not saying I played it well, this was my in my first few game in this plane and the first times encountering the Migs, not even knowing they had missiles that could do that or how to avoid them, and going high up after realizing I couldn’t survive down below either with all the A-10s and Su’s.
Question, have you ever tried locking his missile with your IR one, I think they would proxy each other out and that might catch someone off guard.
Not really any time for that I think, and at this point carrying the very poor Aim-9Bs.
Yeah that BR is rough with planes without flares, since many times you’ll be put in the same lobby with all-aspect slingers that will curb stomp you if you get seen. I’ve played with Mig-21 and it’s radar is pretty crap, locking something that doesn’t have clear skies as a background is pretty hard and missiles on their own aren’t great either, so getting a kill with it is pretty situational.
I see that thing has bombs, have you tried going on a flank close to the ground doing a base run and then surprising someone with 9Ps ?
I think that might be the best playstyle for planes like those.
I’m pretty sure any IR would work, you just aim straight for his plane and as he’s firing his missile you’ll be able to lock it with yours, and considering both of those will fly in a single line it’s a guaranteed proxy destruction.
IIRC I’ve watched DEFYN do exactly this with his F-104 and 9Bs in head-on fights.
I see that thing has bombs, have you tried going on a flank close to the ground doing a base run and then surprising someone with 9Ps?
I mean with all the A-10s coming your way saying low to the ground isn’t a great idea either, you can’t really get anywhere near them, generally the plane is just in a bad spot since it’s not really good at anything, and whenever someone shoots a missile at you, you have to dodge it without flares which in result bleeds all your speed and then you’re a sitting duck because it’s not good at low speed either.
I’m pretty sure any IR would work, you just aim straight for his plane and as he’s firing his missile you’ll be able to lock it with yours, and considering both of those will fly in a single line it’s a guaranteed proxy destruction.
IIRC I’ve watched DEFYN do exactly this with his F-104 and 9Bs in head-on fights.
Well in this case there were a few seconds so unless you really plan on doing that ahead of time I think the window of opportunity is really small as they don’t’ lock quickly either, and not quite sure how well it locks to the front of a missile.
Do what I did
Install a mod that plays a random part of the guitar solo from Free Bird whenever an air-to-air missile, ATGM, air-to-ground missile, or large caliber (HVAR, Zuni, etc.) rocket are fired. Both by you, and by other players.
It even works with the Sturmtiger
This mod alone has improved my mentality playing any BR in game now, as I leave almost every match smiling from the silliness.
How fast does it go with bombs attached ?
Since my Su-17 (barely reaches 1.0M) with a load big enough for a single base still gets to drop them and A-10s are still 10-15km away from you, so you have some time to get away.
Looks like some planes aren’t really worth playing in the current state of the game.
I know you didn’t have much time, I’m just telling you for future use, it might save you sometimes, who knows.
If timestamp doesn’t work, go to 5:00 and you can see how he used 9B to defeat R-60M from the front.
